Comment by swagonomixxx | Hacker News Reader

Comment by swagonomixxx | Hacker News Reader

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It's not really a huge stretch, his post on LinkedIn [0] has 200K+ reactions, and it's an understatement to say he'll have no trouble _at all_ getting a job within a few weeks.

[0]: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/timothy-j-aveni_blacklivesmat...

I woudn't be so sure, not at FANG anyway. Those public stunts are no go for most big compagnies.

One more data point that no one with self-respect could work at a FAANG company?

That’s great. In that case, I encourage more Facebook employees to vote with their feet (before voting with their ballot paper in November of course).

Google and Amazon won't touch him with a barge pole, considering how many problems they already have with internal dissent. I'm sure he'll find something, but it might well be less cushy than the big-co job. It is a sacrifice. Not everyone can be like St. Francis, but a sacrifice is a sacrifice.

I think he's doing the right thing and I wish more people could feel like they are in a position of walking the walk, every day.

You're making the assumption that he knew what the reaction would be. The post could have easily gone ignored, especially in the current turmoil.

I agree that software developers have it pretty good. But let's not, on that basis, discount acts of moral integrity.

Not really, given the left bias of technology companies there is zero chance that his act will be ignored by companies. If anything, standing behind free speech is brave nowadays

If nothing works he can probably open a gofundme campaign.

This might be overly cynical, but it might be possible that he was already thinking about leaving his job, and now found an excuse to do it in a way that potentially gets him more LinkedIn profile views and thus a better next job (he does end his message with advertising himself)

This is overly cynical and also quite far fetched.

Is it though? Let's do the math:

Number of Facebook employees: about 45k. Let's say half of them work in the US (20k). Let's assume people tand to stay at a job for 5 years on average and think about leaving for 6 months before they leave. That means there are 2000 Facebook employees thinking about leaving right now.

Now, what is the probablity that if someone is already thinking about leaving they would take advantage of this situation? Let's give Facebook employees the benefit of the doubt and say that only 1% of them would do such a thing. That means we should expect to hear from about 20 Facebook emloyees making socal media and LinkedIn posts about them leaving Facebook citing policy as a reason while just taking advantage of the situation. Is it really far fetched to say that this guy could be one of them? If anything I would expect 19 more posts like this!

This is obviously too complex for a quick calculation of that sort. This is not really something that math can enlighten. You’re conjecturing out of a bias towards the negative. We simply have no access to his mind, and the information that we have barely justify exploring the possibility of bad faith. In other words: you’re being cynical.

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